#12176 Is the Story of Pope Joan Historically True? And More Questions - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Some claim a woman secretly reigned as pope—but is there any truth to the legend of Pope Joan? We explore the origins and historical credibility of the story, plus discuss Orthodox biblical canons, Christ’s fulfillment of prophecy, and the Church’s understanding of Islam.

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Questions Covered:

12:13 – Is the fact that the Orthodox have a variety of biblical canons, an argument against them?
16:46 – I’m a convert. Is the story of Pope Joan true?
20:03 – How can I make a defense for supposed contradictions in the ecumenical councils?
29:41 – How did Christ fulfill the prophecy of world peace?
34:35 – What was the aftermath of the Jews after the resurrection?
40:16 – Has anyone compiled a list of the early Church writings that were recently discovered that were not available during the reformation?
44:31 – Why did Jesus not tell the Pharisees that he was born in Bethlehem when they said he was born in Nazareth?
46:21 – I agree with the premise of your video on Muslims. What would one believe about their God in order for it to be a different god?
52:02 – How much information did the Church actually have on Islam before making an official statement?

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0:31.9	Catholic Answers live, Joe Heschmire, our guest,
0:34.4	it's asked me anything with Joe Hesmire.
0:36.6	If you haven't listened to Shameless Poperie,
0:39.2	that's Joe's podcast. You really do yourself a favor and check out some of, he's got, you know,
0:43.8	a large body of work there and then new episodes each week coming out. You just go to
0:48.9	shamelessjo.com. You can look for Joe Heschmire or Shameless Popery on YouTube.
0:55.3	And you can get it wherever you get your podcasts.
0:57.4	You can sign up and listen anytime.
1:00.6	They're available to anyone all around the world.
1:04.0	Shameless popery, because Joe is a shameless papist.
1:09.0	But are you a papist right now?
1:10.9	Like in the interim. Are you still a papist? I had a live papist. But are you a papist right now? Like in the interim.
1:12.2	Are you still a papist?
1:13.1	I had a live stream earlier this week, and I just called it shameless Cade of Vacantism.
1:18.5	Did you really?
1:20.1	Because the Cetet, just in case people don't know what Céde means and Vicod.
1:24.9	Cet is a seat, meaning like the Chair of Peter, which is a symbol of the papacy. Vacante is just
1:29.5	vacant. So the seat is vacant. The chair is empty until a new Pope. It is an interregnum is the other
1:37.0	terminal here for it. And so we pray for the successor of Pope Francis and, of course, the successor of Peter.
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